OpinionNovember 24, 2015
Speak Out for 11/24/2015
Southeast Missourian editor Bob Miller's column on microaggressions was balanced, fair and very informative. The only problem I have with objective or subjective discussions in the Southeast Missourian about the benefits or lack thereof to society of the current emphasis on microaggesssions is that 92.7 percent of the content on the opinion page of the Southeast Missourian I consider not micro but macro aggressions of the highest magnitude...
Macroaggressions
Southeast Missourian editor Bob Miller's column on microaggressions was balanced, fair and very informative. The only problem I have with objective or subjective discussions in the Southeast Missourian about the benefits or lack thereof to society of the current emphasis on microaggesssions is that 92.7 percent of the content on the opinion page of the Southeast Missourian I consider not micro but macro aggressions of the highest magnitude.
Tax support
The elephant in the room, not mentioned by the recent Southeast Missourian editorial or the letter from former public school board member Paul Nenninger, is the pathetic tax support given the Cape Girardeau Public School District by taxpayers at the local and state levels. It seems as though the questionable 1:1 initiative (iPad-like device for students) is the current scapegoat used to justify cutting the number of periods from 8 to 7 at the junior and senior high. Any way you look at it, the Cape Central Junior and Senior High Schools seem poised to take a giant leap backward.
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Receding ISIS
This is a real head scratcher. Though the amount of territory controlled by ISIS has shrunk by 25 percent as a result of merciless U.S. bombing, bombastic and increasingly bellicose columnist Mike Jensen has called for an apparent massive infusion of U.S. ground troops.
School periods
I see the Cape School Board is thinking of changing the school day to seven periods instead of eight. When I went to school in the '60s, we had seven periods and got along just fine; it is the school board who changed it to eight. Shortening the school period makes for less time to learn.
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